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Author (down) Shida Beigpour; Christian Riess; Joost Van de Weijer; Elli Angelopoulou
Title Multi-Illuminant Estimation with Conditional Random Fields Type Journal Article
Year 2014 Publication IEEE Transactions on Image Processing Abbreviated Journal TIP
Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 83-95
Keywords color constancy; CRF; multi-illuminant
Abstract Most existing color constancy algorithms assume uniform illumination. However, in real-world scenes, this is not often the case. Thus, we propose a novel framework for estimating the colors of multiple illuminants and their spatial distribution in the scene. We formulate this problem as an energy minimization task within a conditional random field over a set of local illuminant estimates. In order to quantitatively evaluate the proposed method, we created a novel data set of two-dominant-illuminant images comprised of laboratory, indoor, and outdoor scenes. Unlike prior work, our database includes accurate pixel-wise ground truth illuminant information. The performance of our method is evaluated on multiple data sets. Experimental results show that our framework clearly outperforms single illuminant estimators as well as a recently proposed multi-illuminant estimation approach.
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Notes CIC; LAMP; 600.074; 600.079 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ BRW2014 Serial 2451
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Author (down) Shida Beigpour
Title Illumination and object reflectance modeling Type Book Whole
Year 2013 Publication PhD Thesis, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona-CVC Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract More realistic and accurate models of the scene illumination and object reflectance can greatly improve the quality of many computer vision and computer graphics tasks. Using such model, a more profound knowledge about the interaction of light with object surfaces can be established which proves crucial to a variety of computer vision applications. In the current work, we investigate the various existing approaches to illumination and reflectance modeling and form an analysis on their shortcomings in capturing the complexity of real-world scenes. Based on this analysis we propose improvements to different aspects of reflectance and illumination estimation in order to more realistically model the real-world scenes in the presence of complex lighting phenomena (i.e, multiple illuminants, interreflections and shadows). Moreover, we captured our own multi-illuminant dataset which consists of complex scenes and illumination conditions both outdoor and in laboratory conditions. In addition we investigate the use of synthetic data to facilitate the construction of datasets and improve the process of obtaining ground-truth information.
Address Barcelona
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Publisher Ediciones Graficas Rey Place of Publication Editor Joost Van de Weijer;Ernest Valveny
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Bei2013 Serial 2267
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Author (down) Shida Beigpour
Title Physics-based Reflectance Estimation Applied to Recoloring Type Report
Year 2009 Publication CVC Technical Report Abbreviated Journal
Volume 137 Issue Pages
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Corporate Author Computer Vision Center Thesis Master's thesis
Publisher Place of Publication Bellaterra, Barcelona Editor
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Call Number Admin @ si @ Bei2009 Serial 2396
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Author (down) Sandra Jimenez; Xavier Otazu; Valero Laparra; Jesus Malo
Title Chromatic induction and contrast masking: similar models, different goals? Type Conference Article
Year 2013 Publication Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XVIII Abbreviated Journal
Volume 8651 Issue Pages
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Abstract Normalization of signals coming from linear sensors is an ubiquitous mechanism of neural adaptation.1 Local interaction between sensors tuned to a particular feature at certain spatial position and neighbor sensors explains a wide range of psychophysical facts including (1) masking of spatial patterns, (2) non-linearities of motion sensors, (3) adaptation of color perception, (4) brightness and chromatic induction, and (5) image quality assessment. Although the above models have formal and qualitative similarities, it does not necessarily mean that the mechanisms involved are pursuing the same statistical goal. For instance, in the case of chromatic mechanisms (disregarding spatial information), different parameters in the normalization give rise to optimal discrimination or adaptation, and different non-linearities may give rise to error minimization or component independence. In the case of spatial sensors (disregarding color information), a number of studies have pointed out the benefits of masking in statistical independence terms. However, such statistical analysis has not been performed for spatio-chromatic induction models where chromatic perception depends on spatial configuration. In this work we investigate whether successful spatio-chromatic induction models,6 increase component independence similarly as previously reported for masking models. Mutual information analysis suggests that seeking an efficient chromatic representation may explain the prevalence of induction effects in spatially simple images. © (2013) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.
Address San Francisco CA; USA; February 2013
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Call Number Admin @ si @ JOL2013 Serial 2240
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Author (down) Sagnik Das; Hassan Ahmed Sial; Ke Ma; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell; Dimitris Samaras
Title Intrinsic Decomposition of Document Images In-the-Wild Type Conference Article
Year 2020 Publication 31st British Machine Vision Conference Abbreviated Journal
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Abstract Automatic document content processing is affected by artifacts caused by the shape
of the paper, non-uniform and diverse color of lighting conditions. Fully-supervised
methods on real data are impossible due to the large amount of data needed. Hence, the
current state of the art deep learning models are trained on fully or partially synthetic images. However, document shadow or shading removal results still suffer because: (a) prior methods rely on uniformity of local color statistics, which limit their application on real-scenarios with complex document shapes and textures and; (b) synthetic or hybrid datasets with non-realistic, simulated lighting conditions are used to train the models. In this paper we tackle these problems with our two main contributions. First, a physically constrained learning-based method that directly estimates document reflectance based on intrinsic image formation which generalizes to challenging illumination conditions. Second, a new dataset that clearly improves previous synthetic ones, by adding a large range of realistic shading and diverse multi-illuminant conditions, uniquely customized to deal with documents in-the-wild. The proposed architecture works in two steps. First, a white balancing module neutralizes the color of the illumination on the input image. Based on the proposed multi-illuminant dataset we achieve a good white-balancing in really difficult conditions. Second, the shading separation module accurately disentangles the shading and paper material in a self-supervised manner where only the synthetic texture is used as a weak training signal (obviating the need for very costly ground truth with disentangled versions of shading and reflectance). The proposed approach leads to significant generalization of document reflectance estimation in real scenes with challenging illumination. We extensively evaluate on the real benchmark datasets available for intrinsic image decomposition and document shadow removal tasks. Our reflectance estimation scheme, when used as a pre-processing step of an OCR pipeline, shows a 21% improvement of character error rate (CER), thus, proving the practical applicability. The data and code will be available at: https://github.com/cvlab-stonybrook/DocIIW.
Address Virtual; September 2020
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Notes CIC; 600.087; 600.140; 600.118 Approved no
Call Number Admin @ si @ DSM2020 Serial 3461
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Ramon Baldrich; M.C. Olive; Maria Vanrell
Title Colour Naming Considering the Colour Variability Problem. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2000 Publication Computacion y Sistemas, 4(1):30–43. Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BBO2000 Serial 242
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich
Title Estimation of Fuzzy Sets for Computational Colour Categorization Type Journal
Year 2004 Publication Color Research and Application, 29(5):342–353 (IF: 0.739) Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BVB2004 Serial 484
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich
Title A data set for fuzzy colour naming Type Journal
Year 2006 Publication Color Research & Application, 31(1):48–56 Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BVB2006 Serial 590
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich
Title Parametric Fuzzy Sets for Automatic Color Naming Type Journal
Year 2008 Publication Journal of the Optical Society of America A Abbreviated Journal
Volume 25 Issue 10 Pages 2582–2593
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BVB2008 Serial 1004
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell
Title A colour naming experiment Type Report
Year 2001 Publication CVC Technical Report #56 Abbreviated Journal
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Address CVC (UAB)
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BeV2001 Serial 78
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell
Title Fuzzy Colour Naming Based on Sigmoid Membership Functions. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2004 Publication CGIV 2004 Second European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision, 135:139 Abbreviated Journal
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Address Aachen (Germany)
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BeV2004 Serial 441
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Maria Vanrell
Title Parametrizacion del Espacio de Categorias de Color Type Miscellaneous
Year 2007 Publication Proceedings del VIII Congreso Nacional del Color Abbreviated Journal
Volume Issue Pages 77–78
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Address Madrid (Spain)
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Area Expedition Conference CNC’07
Notes CAT;CIC Approved no
Call Number CAT @ cat @ BeV2007 Serial 905
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; M.C. Olive; Maria Vanrell; Ramon Baldrich
Title Colour Perception: A Simple Method for Colour Naming. Type Miscellaneous
Year 1999 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Address Girona
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BOV1999 Serial 47
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Laura Igual; Fernando Vilariño
Title Current Challenges in Computer Vision Type Book Whole
Year 2008 Publication Proccedings of the Third Internal Workshop Abbreviated Journal
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Area Expedition Conference CVCRD
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BIV2008 Serial 1110
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Gemma Sanchez; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell; Josep Llados
Title Normalized colour segmentation for human appearance description. Type Conference Article
Year 2000 Publication 15 th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Abbreviated Journal
Volume 3 Issue Pages 637-641
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Address Barcelona.
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BSB2000 Serial 223
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Francesc Tous; Ramon Baldrich; Maria Vanrell
Title Statical Modelling of a Colour Naming Space. Type Miscellaneous
Year 2002 Publication Proceedings of the 1st. European Conference on Colour in Graphics Imaging and Vision: 406–411. Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BTB2002 Serial 289
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; Ernest Valveny; Jaume Garcia; Agata Lapedriza; Miquel Ferrer; Gemma Sanchez
Title Una experiencia de adaptacion al EEES de las asignaturas de programacion en Ingenieria Informatica Type Miscellaneous
Year 2008 Publication V Congreso Iberoamericano de Docencia Universitaria, pp. 213–216 Abbreviated Journal
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Call Number BCNPCL @ bcnpcl @ BVG2008 Serial 1031
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Author (down) Robert Benavente; C. Alejandro Parraga; Maria Vanrell
Title Colour categories boundaries are better defined in contextual conditions Type Journal Article
Year 2009 Publication Perception Abbreviated Journal PER
Volume 38 Issue Pages 36
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Abstract In a previous experiment [Parraga et al, 2009 Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 53(3)] the boundaries between basic colour categories were measured by asking subjects to categorize colour samples presented in isolation (ie on a dark background) using a YES/NO paradigm. Results showed that some boundaries (eg green – blue) were very diffuse and the subjects' answers presented bimodal distributions, which were attributed to the emergence of non-basic categories in those regions (eg turquoise). To confirm these results we performed a new experiment focussed on the boundaries where bimodal distributions were more evident. In this new experiment rectangular colour samples were presented surrounded by random colour patches to simulate contextual conditions on a calibrated CRT monitor. The names of two neighbouring colours were shown at the bottom of the screen and subjects selected the boundary between these colours by controlling the chromaticity of the central patch, sliding it across these categories' frontier. Results show that in this new experimental paradigm, the formerly uncertain inter-colour category boundaries are better defined and the dispersions (ie the bimodal distributions) that occurred in the previous experiment disappear. These results may provide further support to Berlin and Kay's basic colour terms theory.
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Call Number CAT @ cat @ BPV2009 Serial 1192
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